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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct vs Hy3 preview

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at $0.058 in and $0.380 out and Hy3 preview at $0.072 in and $0.241 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta

0.06¢

for a client proposal

$0.058 in · $0.380 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2024

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Hy3 preview

Tencent

0.06¢

for a client proposal

$0.072 in · $0.241 out / 1M

262K context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.11¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

  • Cheapest input: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at $0.058 per million tokens.
  • Cheapest output: Hy3 preview at $0.241 per million tokens.
  • Largest context: Hy3 preview at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
0.03¢
Hy3 preview
0.03¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
0.06¢
Hy3 preview
0.06¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
needs 155K ctx
Hy3 preview
1.2¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
0.24¢
Hy3 preview
0.28¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
needs 250K ctx
Hy3 preview
1.9¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output
free$0.06$0.120 tokens250k500k750k1000k
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Hy3 preview

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Hy3 preview
Input / 1M tokens
$0.058
$0.072
Output / 1M tokens
$0.380
$0.241
Cached input / 1M
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$0.024

Specs

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Hy3 preview
Provider
Meta
Tencent
Released
September 2024
4 months ago
Context window
131K
262K
Max output
131K
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Input
Text
Text
Output
Text
Text
Reasoning
Answers directly
Shows its thinking
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12-31
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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta

0.03¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

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Hy3 preview

Tencent

0.03¢

for this task

55% input · 45% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.06¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 8,765 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Hy3 preview has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Hy3 preview is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.06¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Hy3 preview shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct pricing →Hy3 preview pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip PreviewAdd Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct or Hy3 preview?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Hy3 preview at 0.06¢; Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at 0.06¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Hy3 preview — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct and Hy3 preview side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.11¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.11¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.

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